Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:43:30 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM login freezes on boot Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902110740080.69591@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1234349391.13067.22.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4992A934.2090903@maydias.com> <1234349391.13067.22.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Da Rock wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:32 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: >> AMD64 4gig RAM FreeBSD 7.1 KDE 4.2 >> >> I've noticed of late when i have had the misfortune of rebooting this >> machine due to severre storms and blackouts, when it boots everything >> loads fine, xdm initates an i get the standard logon screen, however, >> you cant do anything an the mouse dosent work. To solve this issue i go >> to console via CTRL + ALT + F1 kill tthe XDM pid an once it comes back >> up, everything is perfectly fine. >> >> Anyone else had this odd occurance ? > > Sounds like hald is starting after ttys is initiated. There's another > thread here mentioning that- never read the answer though. Maybe start > hald at the beginning of your rc.conf? Or set a sleep on your tty entry > for x? rc.conf just sets variables; it's not order-sensitive. If xorg-server-1.5.3_5,1 along with all the previous patches doesn't fix the problem, then delaying xdm startup might be the way to go. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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